Otto Kopra

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise. A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.

"Overall, fossil fuel producers own only 1.42 percent of global renewable energy projects, and those projects are responsible for a measly 0.1 percent of their total energy production."

Oil, gas and coal companies aren't interested in renewable energy – except as a smokescreen to continue polluting

NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom.

The Week Ahead June 29, 2025

The concern here extends beyond the ruling itself. SCOTUS picks the cases it wants to hear. It's had numerous opportunities to address the constitutionality of nationwide injunctions. So why this case? What does it foreshadow? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

ABC suspended Terry Moran for this? Be a shame if it got around.

Really sharp thread. The fact is, liberals / progressives / leftists are going to have to aggressively join in the propaganda war - in ways that feel gross sometimes - or perish.

The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.

Päivän itsestäänselvä poliittinen totuus.

Kaikki vauraus ja lisäarvo luodaan sillä, että ihmiset tekevät työtä.

Talousjärjestelmä määrittää vain sen, kenen tilille rahat pääasiassa kilahtavat.

Kapitalismissa se ei ole työntekijän tili.

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

Some still see climate change as a distant threat

But the latest EU data from 2024 says otherwise:

🔥 Europe is the fastest-warming continent
🌊 Floods killed 335 people
💸 €18.2 billion in climate-related losses

If this isn’t our top priority, what is?
No time for pauses. No room for distractions

The Authoritarian Playbook: DOGE, Surveillance, and the Collapse of Democracy Inside Trump and Musk’s plan to centralize power through data

I’ve been focused on the patterns and see a very troubling trend - strong indications that Trump and Musk are building a centralized surveillance state and compiling detailed dossiers on all of us

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 82 April 11, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 82 is out!

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Key Takeaway- Surveillance State is coming

Byzantine "Paramerion" (Palash) partially based on an example from Stara Pazova-Surduk, Bulgaria. Fittings from Christie's Auction/Abritus and blade from Fiseka (IIRC). By Leonardo Daneluz.

Alright, I haven't really done one of these on this website yet, so I'm going to talk about the one part of Byzantine Military Equipment we actually have a ton of information about: swords.

#MedievalWarfare #MedievalSky #Medievalists #ClassicalWarfare #AncientWarfare #ClassicsSky

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024 Why the press is ramping up its acts of anticipatory obedience to the Trump regime

The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024 https://twp.ai/1VWMqE

Hyvää päivän jatkoa vain sinullekin.

Aivan. Mutta edelleen: samankaltaisuus ei näytä estävän konflikteja tai yhteiskuntien hajoamista. Syyt ovat muualla.

No etpä näytä pystyvän vastaamaan niihin millään tasolla. Saatikka artikuloimaan omaa kantaasi selkeästi.

Fallacy fallacy on myös argumentointivirhe. Opettele itse argumentoimaan paremmin.

Implikoit että fyysinen samankaltaisuus olisi tekijä. Väitän päinvastaista: sisällissodat ja suurin osa sodista käydään fyysisesti samankaltaisten ihmisten välillä. Useimmiten tapellaan naapurin kanssa, jotka tuppaavat olemaan geneettisesti läheisiä. Joten mikä merkitys on sillä samankaltaisuudella?

Ei ollut. Kyseessä on vasta-argumentti sinun hypoteesillesi että fyysinen samankaltaisuus olisi (merkittävä?) rauhoittava tekijä. Historian perusteella näyttäisi olevan melkeinpä päin vastoin.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Jaa? Miten sitten selität esim sisällissodat?

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